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President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official, Daniel Werfel, to be head of the Internal Revenue Service yesterday. Werfel currently serves as controller of the Office of Management and Budget, and was a key player in implementing recent automatic spending cuts knows as the sequester.

Officials from the state Department of Natural Resources announced the use of logging equipment on private forest land caused the massive wildfire in northwest WI this week. The fire is fully contained, but not before it burned 8,131 acres in Douglas and Bayfield counties.

"Three Bridges Park", a 24-acre park that occupies a former rail yard east of Miller Park between the 27th and 35th street viaducts in the Menomonee Valley will open on July 20th. The park is the last of $25 million in projects for the valley that include extending the Hank Aaron State Trail and the new Urban Ecology Center.

Democratic Representative Gwen Moore from WI's 4th congressional district appeared this week on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Harley-Davidson, Milwaukee Brewers and Johnsonville sausages all got shout-outs, as did classic shows "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley". Gwen Moore was a great sport and played along with Colbert, riding on the back of his imaginary Harley as they were being chased by the police. Video found on our Facebook page.

Gov. Scott Walker signs three new bills today strengthening domestic violence laws, some pertaining to guns. One bill would require domestic violence suspects to report and surrender their weapons within 48 hours of a reported incident....

Political leaders and security forces in Ukraine are still struggling to confront Russian-backed separatists, as pro-Russian militants seized another government building this weekend.
What do 137,000 Wisconsinites have in common? The IRS...

The search for the missing Malaysian airliner goes underwater today, as a special U.S. made vehicle is deployed in the Indian Ocean to map the ocean floor.
As you travel to work today, you may see more teens cleaning up their neighborhoods...